Hackers seize military records in Mexico in cyber attack

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at a press conference on Friday that hackers stole and published classified documents from the Mexican Ministry of Defense, "and this was in a cyber attack."

However, he said no sensitive information was stolen.

The Latinos news portal said, after an initial assessment, that the six terabytes of data were related to the head of state's health and security issues, among other things.

According to the report, tens of thousands of documents and emails were stolen.

The site also mentioned that the attack was carried out by the hacking group "Guacamaya", in the largest cyber attack in Mexico.

The documents stolen date from 2016 to September this year.

One of the documents issued by the armed forces relates to a previously unknown treatment for the president, for heart problems.

It stated that Lopez Obrador was flown by military medical plane from his vacation home in the south of the country, to the capital earlier this year.

The 68-year-old president confirmed in his daily press conference that everything mentioned in the news portal was true.

However, he said, his heart disease had been known to the public for a long time.

Other documents, according to the website, detail a botched military operation to arrest the son of a drug lord, Joaquín Guzmán, better known as "El Chapo" in 2019.

Lopez Obrador described the disclosure of the documents as not a problem, and claimed that his government had nothing to hide.

"If you are not guilty of anything," he said, "you have nothing to fear."

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